Teen girls, gangs involved in 2013 cases

6:25 PM,
Nov. 18, 2013

Antoine Williams was charged with promoting prostitution and sex trafficking.

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With authorities on heightened alert for sex trafficking - and armed with enhanced criminal penalties this year - Nashville police netted a trafficking arrest this weekend.

Detectives arrested Antoine Williams, 34, of Milwaukee, on charges of promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and he's in jail on $40,000 bond. His fiance, Sarah Ostovich, 22, also was charged with promoting prostitution and other crimes and has been jailed.

Police said a 19-year-old woman called the state's little-used human trafficking hotline for help on Nov. 11, triggering an investigation by a local ...